Introducing the Slate theme for RapidWeaver
The Slate theme offers a clean palette on which to build your next site. With a crisp, clear, stylish design the Slate theme won't take away from your site's content, but will instead help showcase your blog, portfolio, business, or whatever else you might be building.
Slate offers a number of unique features such as its popover ExtraContent area, its beautiful drop down menus, its great looking blog design and more. This theme also introduces a great new way in which to handle your banner images for you site.
As with many of my recent themes I've also included a built-in theme FAQ as well as a great lightbox gallery option for the Photo Album page and our ever famous Blog Entry Topper feature.
I've created a full list of all of the Slate theme's variations on the live preview site here. Be sure to check out the product page for this new theme to get all of the details of these variations. In addition to details regarding theme variations, you'll find several screenshots of the theme, a live preview site and a great walk-thru video. Also included on the product page are a variety of tutorial videos that help you learn to use the Blog Entry Topper, guide you through the banner images and much more!
I truly hope you enjoy using this beautiful, unique theme as much as I did in designing and developing it.
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Comments
sean said...
Didn’t want to post on RW site…..but does this theme work well with all the IE’s of the world? 7/8/9, I’m sure there are some features that don’t but can you point out what does or does not work? I didn’t get a chance to watch the video’s yet so maybe you mentioned what it’s compatible/or works like it should, with regards to today’s browsers.
Thanks,
Sean
Adam Shiver said...
Slate is compatible with IE 8+... The thing you’ll be missing in IE8 are some niceties like rounded corners, drop shadows, inset shadows, etc. The site will function fine, just won’t look exactly the same as the modern browsers like IE9, Safari, FF, Chrome.
howardfootball said...
Adam
brilliant work !!!
Dick Sijtsma said...
Hi,
i like your Slate theme very much. I build rapidly a nice looking website.
But my users are missing the button to the 4th content area. They just don’t notice it. I allready changed it to a more colorfull customized button, but still they miss it. Is it possible to add a customizable title text to this button, so people see this text when hovering over the icon?
Thanks!
Adam Shiver said...
@Dick - What you’re looking to do isn’t a built-in feature of the theme. To accomplish what you’re looking to do would require a good deal of customization to the theme’s code, which isn’t something that is covered by support (http://el-xr.com/i)
Dick Sijtsma said...
Hi Adam,
i know it is not a built-in feature, and i’m not asking you to do any customization, neither am i gonna try that myself. You can regard my comment just as a ‘feature request’ for a next version or another theme. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a customizable title text for the customizable icon for contentarea #4? In the meantime i’m a very happy ‘Slate’ user.
Regards,
Dick Sijtsma
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Milan Pavic said...
Hi guys
I love this theme, I am using it for a new site.
But I have an issue with the logo and the nav bar: I have more main pages then the nav bar will allow, so I want to reduce the logo, but that’s a pain… Is there a way to position the logo in a fixed place?
Adam Shiver said...
@Milan Pavic - Setting a fixed location for the logo is not an option of the theme. Being a horizontal navigation there are definitely physical limitations on space. That is just the physics of the situation. The trick is in organizing your site into sub navigation, etc.
Milan Pavic said...
@Adam
Yeah, I had already started reorganising. Quick last question: can I have a page in the menu with sub pages, but the name in the menu should not link to a page, because it is just a name for what is underneath?
Possible?
Adam Shiver said...
@Milan Pavic - No, that isn’t an option of the theme. I actually just answered your support ticket with this same exact question, too.